The thing about generalizations is that you can always find an exception. Earlier this year I wrote an article, ”Search Isn’t Dead: It’s Gone Incognito.” In it, I argued that search has become so embedded in applications and such a part of everyday life that we no longer

In early June the open source search business arguably came of age when Elasticsearch closed on a $70M tranche of Series C investment funding. Elasticsearch is supported by both an open source search community and a commercial search business. In November 2012 the company received $10M in a Series

“I hope it’s not big data,” one of them said -- I think it may have been Om Malik. It seemed as if the term was being used “temporarily” until someone came up with something better. Needless to say, it stuck.

While most people were busy nursing their New Year’s Eve hangovers or getting busy with their resolutions on January 1, the New York Times ran a rather interesting headline: "Big Data Shrinks to Grow." We looked at it and said, really? That’s not our experience, but continued

Christmas was trending on Twitter at noon December 3 -- who knows why? We can try looking through a few hundred tweets and make a guess, but it may not be very accurate; after all, there are thousands of data points.

This week, LucidWorks announced its Solr Marketplace for pre-built add-ons that enhance open source enterprise search capabilities in existing applications.
Solr, part of the open-source Apache Lucene project, is an enterprise search platform, and Redwood City, California-based LucidWorks has built applications and modules on top of it.

There’s always plenty of news in the Big Data world and, try as we might, we can’t cover it all; so we’re highlighting a few of the items that made us take notice and offering a wee-bit of context around it.

Lucid Imagination released its new search-as-a-service platform, LucidWorks Cloud. The cloud-based product reduces the effort and time required for companies to adopt enterprise search. Search as a Service Growing volumes of unstructured content is driving many organizations to adopt enterprise search. Search can improve access to content and make

Today was the second and final day of Lucid Imagination ’s annual Lucene love fest, Apache Lucene EuroCon, in Barcelona, Spain. The information exchange, networking and new ideas continued to flow in sessions, halls and over the free wine at lunch.

Lucid Imagination (news, site), commercial provider of services for open source enterprise search platform Apache Solr/Lucene, has announced the general availability of LucidWorks 1.7 with a number of new features, such as SharePoint integration, that make the platform more attractive for enterprise customers.

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